Understanding BSDP and DHCP access

…Before we start showing you how to unicast of multicast your network deployment…system, I want to discuss setting up the environment so that it's sure to work.…To begin talking about that, we have to talk…about Boot Service Discovery Protocol and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.…So what is BSDP?…Well it is the boot service discovery protocol…as I just said and it's used by your…net boot clients to figure out whether or…not there's a net boot server on the network.…

DHCP, or dynamic host configuration protocol, is used by client system…to discover, offer, request and…acknowledge receipt of network configuration information.…That's a long way of saying this is…how your systems get automatic IP addresses and…it's happening over the same port numbers that…are used for the boot service discovery protocol.…So these things go hand in hand during that initial start up process.…Of your net boot process.…

So, DHCP has to be available on your network.…If you do not already have it or your on a segregated network then your server…

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7/16/2014

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